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every twenty-four or forty-eight hours. For bass or 

 perch, if the water changes once a week it will 

 answer. With carp, only enough water is required 

 to keep up with the evaporation, and the warmer 

 the water gets, the better and the faster the growth 

 of the fish, provided they have plenty of food. 



Many farms have soft, springy portions which can- 

 not be used for the growing of crops, in which a fish 

 pond could be constructed without great expense, 

 and enough raised for family use. But in the taking 

 of fish, whether it be from a natural body of water or 

 from a private pond, you should regulate the killing 

 of them the same as you would your fowls. Do not 

 kill any more than you need at one time, for although 

 you cannot see the fish to count them the same as 

 you can your fowls, yet the fact remains that when 

 one of each is killed, there remains one less fish or 

 chicken for future dinners, as the case may be, and 

 you should no more think of killing more fish than 

 you would use, than you would chickens. I know, 

 the temptation is too strong to resist, when fish are 

 biting well, to stop taking them when you have 

 enough for your own use ; but if you do take them, 

 do not let them go to waste. You have plenty of 

 neighbors who would be glad of them, and perhaps 

 some day when your provisions happened to be low, 

 you might go home and find that a neighbor who 

 had not forgotten your kindness, had sent some- 

 thing in. 



